A Way of Life

Lyric Opera of Chicago has recorded Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci on film. Last week, the company announced that registration was open for audiences to secure free links to screen the new Pagliacci made at the Lyric Opera House. Audiences can now secure a free, on-demand viewing of this verismo production. More information about the production and reservations are available at lyricopera.org/pagliacci. 

Fall for Dance North (FFDN), in partnership with TO Live, announces a special, in-theatre film screening of FFDN's 2021 Signature Program dance film at Meridian Hall (1 Front St. E) on Oct. 14 at 7pm, in strict compliance with public health protocols and seating capacity limitations. An innovative three-part global dance film, the digital presentation features three stunning performances shot on location in India, Cuba, and London (UK) and directed by award-winning Indo-Canadian filmmaker Vikram Dasgupta.

“Didn’t It Rain” is from Blount’s highly-anticipated new album, The New Faith. Ahead of the release, Blount has shared three album tracks: “Didn’t It Rain,” made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson, “The Downward Road,” made famous by singer Jim Williams. Watch the new music video now!

Los Angeles Opera presents its 2006 rendition of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The performers are Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, and Renato Bruson, James Conlon conducts and Marta Domingo directs.LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZywmSJkKYE&t=83s

Following its award winning sell-out run at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival, Bobby & Amy - a dark comedy about friendship, heartache and the repercussions of foot-and-mouth disease - returns this autumn for a 17-venue tour across South and East England.

Every Christmas for the past twenty-six years, Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas has crisscrossed the country, bringing to packed venues his authentic remembrance of a way of life that is, alas, no longer with us.

You Asked For It is Ainsworth’s fourth album of all-new material (a best-of LP entitled Top Shelf was expanded into a deluxe mini-LP CD released in Japan last year.) You Asked For It was recently released digitally in South Korea by Music Island, and in Japan by Ratspack Records as a deluxe mini-LP CD with the bonus track “As Time Goes By.”

​​​​​​​ Every Christmas for the past twenty-seven years, Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas has crisscrossed the country, bringing to packed venues his authentic remembrance of a way of life that is, alas, no longer with us.

Phizzical is a small funded company, currently touring a large scale South Asian musical. Before we reached The Lowry in Salford, we’d been hit by Covid. Our determination not to cancel performances played a major role in re-igniting audiences to return to theatres post Covid. Like others, we anxiously awaited the outcome of the NPO announcements. There had been delays - as a sector we knew changes were afoot.

The third and final part of an epic documentary trilogy, Life of Crime: 1984-2020 tells the full story of three friends from Newark, New Jersey whose lives have been defined by and torn apart by their addictions. Watch the trailer for the final part now!

Igniting buzz at an unprecedented rate as a different kind of rockstar, genre-shifting force and critically acclaimed Memphis luminary Duke Deuce unleashes a new single and music video entitled “Crunkstarz.” Listen to it HERE via Quality Control Music/Motown Records/Made Men Movement. Watch the music video HERE. 

They include Driftwood, a 90-minute animated space adventure family movie event from executive producer/creator Victor Courtright (Aquaman: King of Atlantis) and Invincible Fight Girl, a half-hour action-comedy series from first time executive producer and creator Juston Gordon-Montgomery (DC Super Hero Girls). 

New York City is like no other place in the world! This June, The Players Theatre Short Play & Musical Festival is producing 'NYC,' short plays that get to the heart of the Big Apple and explore what makes this town tick. Unique New York - it's more than a tongue twister - it is a way of life!

Grace, a new musical aiming to land on Broadway or a big national tour, has gone back to development at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts after a first run of public performances last year

CONVERSE BASIN is the moniker of California-based DJ and producer James Converse. CONVERSE BASIN sings, plays guitar, and has been a house DJ for 20 years, drawing from a wide variety of influences to fuse his passions for dance, techno, electronic, and indie music. The debut CONVERSE BASIN album OCEANS WILL NEVER KEEP US APART will drop in June.

Theatre Rhinoceros presents a free Zoom/Facebook Live presentation, WAR'S END, conceived and performed by John Fisher on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8:30pm.

This month, the reader question was: Have Any Broadway Plays Ever Closed Before They Opened?

FCM Hospitality has announced exciting changes coming to Craft Hall - starting with the launch of Craft Hall Live that kicks off with a new weekly Tribute Band Series.

The ground-breaking new opera by Welsh National Opera, Migrations will receive its world premiere in Summer 2022 with further performances in Autumn 22. 

Los Angeles-based CONTRA-TIEMPO will perform on the Henry J. Leir Stage during the second week of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, fusing Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance into a theatrical performance titled joyUS justUS, from July 7-11.

The New Faith will be released as part of Smithsonian Folkways’ African American Legacy series—co-conceived with and supported by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Conceived, written and recorded during lockdown, the album aims to envision what Black religious music would sound like in a not-so-distant future.

Pennsylvania-based duo Space Kamp has announced their upcoming concert at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA on July 11th. The Space Kamp Summer Shake Down is a free show in conjunction with SteelStacks Summer Concert Series.

Joyce Kennedy of Mother's Finest proves that rock n' roll will never die in EP Rock'n My Soul. Rock'n My Soul is a tour-de-force in the rock/funk fusion genre, bringing together high energy instrumentals with Joyce 'Baby Jean' Kennedy's powerful vocals and ripping, confident lyrics.

Building on the foundation of the acclaimed original series, which premiered in 2018 and tied the history of some of the world’s greatest civilizations to thriving modern communities, Season 2 presents stories of Native Americans who are carrying forward Indigenous values to transform our 21st century world.

Hidden Path is a distillation of Mahood’s musical practice as a way of life, a patient celebration of the unexpected, unhurried and exhilarating. The seeds of Hidden Path were planted when Mahood was completing his 2013 album Drifter’s Temple. Watch the title track “Hidden Path,” composed alongside that album. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

Todrick Hall is on the search to find the flashiest, most over-the-top, outrageous homes in the newly greenlighted HGTV series Battle of the Bling (wt). Todrick—who boasts more than six million social media followers and more than 800 million video views—will be joined by HGTV designer Kim Myles (High Design).

Stick Figure will bring their signature musicality and latest tour to Las Vegas to perform hits from their latest album, Wisdom.

Melinda Dillion, known for countless screen and stage roles, including her Tony Award nominated performance as Honey in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? passed away on Monday, January 9, at the age of 83. 

The Millbrook Playhouse Board of Directors, and new Producing Artistic Director, Shannon Agnew, have announced the professional summer theater’s 60th Season.

Looking for the perfect summer camp for your theatre-loving kid? Let BroadwayWorld be your guide and check out some of the best and most anticipated theatre arts camps of 2023.

Some of the best jazz music in NYC is being presented at 59E59 Theaters through December 11. Brothers, Peter and Will Anderson and their ultra-talented ensemble of musicians are performing in “The Journey of Jazz.”

After a highly successful debut in Brisbane and sold-out shows in Adelaide, award-winning theatre company JTM Productions is thrilled to bring their critically acclaimed production of Sex, Lies & Betrayal - Memoirs of a Hollywood Star to Melbourne in a Victorian premiere.

Three chords and the truth.' That's what they say country music is built on... And for multi-award nominated Hazelridge, Manitoba's Banned & Outlawed - and their latest single, 'Real Country Song' - that sentiment is absolute fact.

The wide variety that Indian art consists of rarely gets represented in the manner that it deserves. Being culturally diverse and distinct, Indian traditional art forms have evolved over the years, and have remained untouched by modernisation.

Acclaimed writing team Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith (“Save Me,” “Run”) have signed on for the project that follows a retired disgraced world champion fighter drawn into the corrupt underbelly of the sport after the disappearance of his childhood best friend and training partner.

You may have a certain idea of what a musical based on Greek mythology would look and feel like, but chances are you’ve never seen or heard anything like singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell masterpiece (and Tony and Grammy Award winning) HADESTOWN. Told through a haunting folk rock, blues, gospel and jazz-infused score, HADESTOWN puts a stylistic and modern twist on the tragic love stories of Orpheus and Eurydice and of Persephone, the goddess of spring and Hades, the king of the underworld. Bringing the role of Hades to life in the national tour of HADESTOWN, which takes the stage at the Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando December 13th – 18th, will be Matthew Patrick Quinn. I caught up with Matthew to find out more about HADESTOWN and what it’s like performing this visionary show to audiences all over the country.

Nashville-based/Haynesville, LA-born country-roots artist Chris Canterbury released a new song “Sweet Maria” from his forthcoming album Quaalude Lullabies. The lush ballad was co-written with Vinnie Paolizzi, features gorgeous duet harmonies with Meg McRee, and is exemplary of Canterbury’s craft with lyrics and sentiment.

This season, tickets for every performance of every show at Montana Repertory Theatre will be available at Pick What You Pay prices.

Cleveland-based powerhouse Chayla Hope has unveiled “High,” the latest single from the vinyl-presser-turned-pop-star’s debut record Damn, Feelings. For the release of “High,” Hope has partnered with Shway Papers to create Chayla Hope-branded rolling papers. “High” follows the release of “Love In Lo-Fi,” “Falling,” and “Forget me Not.'

Guordan Banks will be performing live with Natasha Hoffman and Calista Oritz at The Mint in Los Angeles on September 28th at 7pm.

Matt Harmon’s Exhibits in the Zoo displays what life was like for people prior to the Holocaust living out their days in the confines of the Warsaw Ghetto. To much knowledge and further proven by history, the ideas of the Holocaust, or what our immediate resonance with the tragedy conveys is the Concentration Camp angle. With plays like Martin Sherman’s Bent, and Diary of Anne Frank, and novels such as Night and Number of the Stars, we have learned at length the tragedies that struck the communities of Jews at the hands of Hitler’s Regime.

FFDN will present its largest festival line-up to date, showcasing a hybrid mix of electrifying in-person performances and original digital content for its local and global audience, including the world premiere of 10 festival commissions. 

Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and global Latin music idol OZUNA joins forces with the unapologetic and multi-faceted Dominican rapper TOKISCHA in his new single 'Somos Iguales,' a contagious danceable track that invites the listener to lose their inhibitions to the sound of a fusion of hot Caribbean rhythms.

Toronto's premier international dance festival Fall for Dance North has announced its seventh edition from Sept. 11-Oct. 29, 2021. FFDN will present its largest festival line-up to date, showcasing a hybrid mix of electrifying in-person performances and original digital content for its local and global audience, including the world premiere of 10 festival commissions.

Star of FR Ted Ardal O'Hanlon is extending his tour of critically acclaimed show The Showing Off Must Go On. Additional dates kick off on 4th November in Findhorn and finish on 26th November in Chester.

Fusing EDM and Dominican Dembow, 'ESTILAZO' is a statement in support of sexual liberation, feminism and inclusion. The song in Spanish is empowered by the chorus 'Ser Perra Está De Moda' and is accompanied by a music video with cameos by Dennis Rodman, Nikita Dragun and La Demi.

To celebrate the incredible cinema New York African Film Festival brings to BAM each year during DanceAfrica, the nation's largest festival dedicated to African dance and music taking place May 27—30 at BAM looks back at the decade-plus history of FilmAfrica with a series of recent films and hits from past festivals.

Screenbound Pictures and Blue Dolphin Films have announced the release of Barry & Joan - Keeping vaudeville alive, in UK cinemas 6th May 2022.

You Can’t Take It with You is a play that reminds us not to take life too seriously. It helps us to remember what the important things are—family, friends, love, and laughter.

When they say there's nothing to do this weekend - they definitely do not mean Philadelphia! The guide to spring and summer will keep you busy every single weekend for the new three months - and give tourists over 80 reasons to visit Philly in 2023.